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Maybe only redeeming feature of Star Trek Voyager !! All Star trek episodes as a rule involving the borg are all good.....Ergo her being 1/2 borg helps alot!
(2) Can we catch the 'other' North london team?
Obviously not ! especially the way your team are playing at the minute. Luckily Chelsea are also playing s h ite football, so by default you should be fine for the champions league again.
Just railed the VLV final. Amazing stuff. Many congrats to Foley and RT for winning packages. Very well played and very unlucky for everyone else at the FT, such a sick bubble.
Sadly while 99% of the chatbox rail was quality there were a few trolls lurking. Some were very obvious, some quite smart about it. One such gentleman who I believe was in the later category despite coming out with a lot of chat which would fall in the former was unerringly persistent. I tried to chatbox police a little, not sure why I do that but it just annoys me when there are players at a huge final and you have that go off. I tried the usual, ask nicely. That failed. Start talking about the channels after 865, usually a banker, that failed. Maybe it was the hang over or my general grumpiness today but I thought I'd fire a third bullet and just offer Heads Up for Rollz. Heads up play was accepted on the provision if took place after the finish of the VLV FT. I've just left the HU table after getting a no show :sadface:
The more ill judged rail talk does tend to interest me in terms of analysing the human condition. You have some who just want to spout bile at someone, usually a running grudge or a desperate plea for attention. You have militant supporting to the lengths of disrespectful comments on other players which I see as a desperate attempt to gain success by proxy, a truly strange phenomenon. Another element which appeared was how stress and seeming disappointment can make people quick to attack. It was real eye opening stuff.
As for my VLV chances, I'm deep in a satellite hole without binking a seat for any level. Time to wipe the slate and try for next month's final anew, I need my Tikay Butler experience.
DYM challenge, did another five and oppo took a flippity flop versus me and that was that.
Run bad/played worse in the first cash session, got most of it back in the second. Plus I found out that even if pocket aces are led by a full unit of cavalry with accompanying bugles and drums I will still not fold Kings preflop. Good to know in the future.
Got an idea for the Blackpool SPT (will reveal soon, PMs have been sent). Sorry to be a tease.
The weighted contribution thread has really made me think. I don't want that discussion to spill over to here but as a result I realise how silly it's been by not opening new tables for cash sessions. I have never been worried abut playing HU for a bit and I don't sit out regs, I've just been lazy and like to rail running tables to get a feel for those playing. I've decided that for the foreseeable future when I crack open a cash session set of tables, at least one will be a table I open/has one person on. They don't take long to fill usually and if a lot of regs did this then we might really get some tables running.
On a second point I've been racking my brains trying to come up with a reason the old live cash poker fee playing system of 'sessions' would be better than the rake for online games. Sadly I can't come up with any coherent argument for this, it's just unworkable. Would be nice though if rake never existed, we had no knowledge of it and sessions was all that was there, I really believe sessions force you to play a little looser plus there's more to win in the middle. If people wanted to play, they'd have to play.
Oh well.
1) The first two Batman films weren't that bad. Batman suffered from making it about The Joker (which in some part was the same problem with Dark Knight). I loved Keaton's interpretation of the Wayne/Batman combination. He played Wayne as unsure while alone, bravado when in company and Batman as a single minded force of nature. Batman Returns was decent, despite the 'resurrection by cats' and 'raised by penguins' origins of the two main villains which was frankly shocking. The major flaw with both was because they came from a comic book the director decided to make them somewhat cartoony. Batman is a gritty interpretation of modern life in a semi dystopian parallel Earth. Of course as soon as Schumacher got involved it made Tim Burton's films look as gritty as Black Hawk Down. I hated Forever and 'and Robin.' Tommy Lee Jones played Two-Face as a low rent Joker, Jim Carey played Jim Carey, Arnie's pun-tasiums became old very quickly and the scripts were terrible. I really believe the Adam West TV Movie is better than 'Batman and Robin.'
The new ones are much better, but not without their flaws. We are yet to see a great Batman film IMO, however looking at the trailers for 'Dark Knight Rises' we may have so me chances. I love Nolan's direction in these and if he could just focus the scripts a little better without trying to give everyone in the ensemble cast their own set piece we could be in for a real treat.
2) The original Christopher Reeve Superman film is a masterpiece. Perfect pace, great story (Luthor isn't trying to kill thousands of people, his whole plan is a Real Estate Con which just so happens to involve thousands of deaths, seriously the coolest evil plan I think I've seen in a movie), great balance and big finish. Reeve plays both roles to perfection.
The original films go steadily downhill for me in the order of 2 - decent, 3 - really bad, 4 - a steaming pile of celluloid.
When you say TV series I really hope you're talking about Smallville rather than The Adventures of Lois and Clark. There have been tons of Superman TV series, which one did you mean?
3) I love Babylon 5. Did you know JMS was one of the original idea pitchers of Star Trek - Deep Space 9? He got rejected and made his idea anyway in the form of B5, and they made DS9 pretty much along his lines anyway.
4) I much prefer the new Battlestar to the old one. Concerning Starbuck, the world of the fanboy totally misunderstood that. People were crying out 'why is Starbuck going to be a woman?' The problem is the Dirk Starbuck had become such a cult favourite that they had to make the new one a woman. You could have Gary Oldman play Starbuck and still 95% of the hardcore audience would say 'He's good, but he's no Benedict.'
Strangely my favourite BS episode comes from the old series and from the worst season of that series. Near the end of that awful Battlestar 1985 (I think that's the year, not sure though) run they have a stand alone episode which is essentially the final fate of Starbuck. It's a fine charector piece and the best bit of the whole of the old series.
5) You're comments on Star Wars deserve a post all on their own. In brief, you Sir are wrong. However George Lucas will probably change that comment a few times and add a few pictures of Jawas.
Tommy,I definitely meant the Smallville incarnation of Superman.I loved Babylon 5 and thought the Shadows and Centauri as baddies were great, and the arc storyline that emerged through the series was brilliant. With the Star Wars comment just thought i might stir the pot for any response! I saw the first one just after its release, at an outdoor screening in the middle east against a clear starlit sky at the age of 7 or 8 and was mesmerised by the film and setting in which i saw the film.
Lord of the Rings - great epic, however if you have the extended edition please book off a week from work/kiss sunlight goodbye.
Ok, that's not quite true.
I was taken to watch LOTR1 and got a dead leg from it's mind-numbing awfulness. However, I have never walked out on a film & am always hopeful of a good ending (everyone dying and sparing the world two sequels would have been the best scenario here), so spent the last 45 mins walking up and down the aisles/back row to shake it off.
Sean Bean getting shot five times and giving a dying speech between each arrow would have been too embarrasing even by Bollywood standards - in fact, bollywood would at least have thrown in @ least half a dozen song&dance numbers to alleviate the tedium!
I have never seen Star Wars, but suspect that just like LOTR and the HP series, is completely overhyped.
So don't let James blackmail you & ignore him!
The crazy witch woman comes back from the death.
Yeah, Rush Hour 1+2 are real gems4the quotes&comedy.
Classic Tucker line from when he's about to be executed by the triads in the chinese restaurant:
"No no, he meant cut me loose! That's right man, me and him share the same mama - I'm Blackanese!!"
What happened to Football and Poker